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Murray · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1895

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Rise of Fifteen Per Cent. in Wool

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Saturday 28 September 1895 · page 2

The fifth series of colonial wool sales opened in London on Tuesday evening in the presence of a very large attendance of home and foreign buyers…

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Calimo V. Wheat, Tulla and North Wakool (Combined.)

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 28 September 1895 · page 3

A match was played at Calimo on September 14, by teams representing Calimo v. Werai, Tulla and North Wakool, (combined), and after a very interesting game resulted in a win for Calimo, by 2 goals…

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The National Wool Company of Australia Limited. Melbourne, September 19

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 28 September 1895 · page 2

HIDES—We held our usual Thursday Auction Sale at the Wool Exchange, when the following prices were realised— Green ox extra heavy weights “of heavy substance,” averaging from 85Ib to 100IB, 4d to [?]d per lb ; average weights,…

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Melbourne Wool Markets. (Dalgety and Company Limited). Melbourne, September 25

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 28 September 1895 · page 2

WOOL—Following up the Inaugural sales at Sydney, our branch there offered on 18th instant an unusually large catalogue for this time of the year including many leading and well-known clips from New South Wales and…

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Difficulties of Travelling. Getting the Wool Clip to the Sea Board

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 28 September 1895 · page 3

Travelling, it cm be easily understood, was a matter of great difficulty in those good old days. To travel to Sydney meant months of mental strain and…

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The Trade with Victoria. Opening of Maiden’s Punt. Sending the Hest Load of Wool to Melbourne

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 28 September 1895 · page 3

Quite an epoch in the early history of Deniliquin was the building of Mr James Maiden’s punt. The energetic manager of Perricoota recognised that something…

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Dairy Cows for Profit

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 28 September 1895 · page 1

As I have already said, cows should be well and liberally fed; but what to feed for most profit is the question. Whatever is produced by an animal comes…

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Farm and Garden Egyptian Corn

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 28 September 1895 · page 1

The long, dry summers demand that some substitute for fresh green grass be used if possible. Many farmers, and in fact those having one or two cows, if they have a piece…

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Wool and Stock Reports

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 1 October 1895 · page 4

THE AUSTRALIAN MORTGAGE AND AGENCY COMPANY, Limited, Melbourne, report, September 25:—Wool.—The most important intelligence to report in this connection is…

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Farm and Garden Success with Poultry

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Wednesday 2 October 1895 · page 6

J. L. Hague says: 'Feed and water regularly. Never keep a hen older than three years. Have tight and warm houses. Keep your fowle free from pests and keep…

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Corowa Pastoral Agricultural and Horticultural Society

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 4 October 1895 · page 2

A MEETING of the council and guarantors of this society was held at the Globe Hotel on Tuesday morning. There were present:--Messrs. E…

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The Rise in the Price of Wool

The Berrigan Advocate · Friday 4 October 1895 · page 2

The new season’s clip is now coming forward rapidly, and as serious troubles have not arisen in connection with the establishment of the 1894 agreement, delays are not…

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Ovens and Murray Dairy Company

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 4 October 1895 · page 6

AN extraordinary meeting of shareholders in the Ovens and Murray Dairy Company was held at the Springhurst state school on Saturday…

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Albury Farmers’ Market. Monthly Report for September

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 4 October 1895 · page 4

THE RIVERINA WOOL, HIDE, AND PRODUCE Co. LIMITED report:—Our weekly sales of farm produce, &c., have been held every Saturday during the month, the attendance of buyers…

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Farming As It Should Be

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 4 October 1895 · page 14

Farmers ought to like their business. No success is to be attained In it If they do not like it, and If they take tho proper means to ensure success, their pleasure follows as a…

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Poultry on Farms

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 4 October 1895 · page 14

At a recent meeting of the Port Germei[?] branch of the Agricultural Bureau Mr. J. W Walden ([?] visitor) read a paper on “Poultry,” of which the following is the substance : —…

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The Farm and Garden. Work for the Week

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 4 October 1895 · page 14

THE KITCHEN GARDEN.—Continue planting potatoes. Spinach should be regularly down to keep up a succession, and requires soil rich and well worked at the present time…

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High Farming

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 4 October 1895 · page 14

An Englishman, settled in the States, gives his home experience to his neighbours. He says : —“I came from England, and my father was a practical farmer, if I may use that term,…

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Farm and Garden Success with Poultry

The Berrigan Advocate · Friday 4 October 1895 · page 2

J. L. Hague says : “Feed and water regularly. Never keep a hen older than three years. Have tight and warm houses, Keep your fowls free from pests and keep…

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Stock Report Pastoral Times Office, Deniliquin, Friday Evening, October 4. 1895

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 5 October 1895 · page 2

A SPLENDID fall of rain occurred on Tuesday last, the total registered at Deniliquin being 86 paints, The downpour was much heavier in the eastern portions of the district and ranged from an inch to nearly an inch…

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